I know this story is old; I found it through the "similar threads" feature. I looked it up.
"During the sentencing phase, court heard how the girls sought help from the Children's Aid Society, their father, other relatives and their mother's friends about her increasing alcohol use that basically left them to run the family home and take care of their younger half-brother. They also repeatedly argued with their mother about her excessive drinking. But nobody offered any help and they eventually decided that killing their mother was the only way out.
Both girls actually viewed their mother's murder as a mercy killing, court transcripts indicated."
What do they mean nobody offered any help?